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Newcomb Art School, New Orleans, Louisiana locations: 1887 Newcomb College established - education, training in the arts for women - in the Gulf South William Woodward Ellsworth Woodward 1892 > Garden District campus, Robb-Burnside mansion on Washington Avenue Art school at Newcomb College, adjacent to Tulane University

several disciplines. industries, pottery - most notable, also jewelry, textiles (embroidery), bookbinding botanical designs, native flora

Notable faculty: Ellsworth Woodward, head, taught ---1931 Gertrude Roberts Smith, taught drawing, painting, design 1887-1934 Mary Given Sheerer, pottery, taught 1894- Xavier Gonzalez, painting George Rickey, sculpture John Canaday, art history, critic (taught NC 1934-36, chair of the art school 1950-52) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Canaday Norman Boothby Elizabeth Hill Boone, art history Jessie Poesch, art history Gene Koss, glass Pat Trivigno, painting James L. Steg Donald Roberston

Notable alumni Sadie Irvine Mignon Faget Ida Kohlmeyer Kendall Shaw Angela Gregory Sadie Irvine

Whaley, Edna Reed. "An Art-Craft College," School Arts, vol. 13.